By 1933, so many newspaper reports about 'Doukhobors' had been published in California that one crossword creator decided to use this new word in a puzzle.
The word also appeared in educational newsprint 'fillers', to fill a small gap in text.
In most of North America (Canada, USA, Mexico), a new generation of readers was exposed to this 'strange' new word mistakenly and confusingly describing all kinds of 'Doukhobors' as one group with one 'king'.
1929
1931
Sometimes reporters confused the Canadian and American groups. Compare the news reports about 'Doukhobors' in Canada (above) to simultaneous news (below) of the mixed Spiritual Christians tribes from Russia in Los Angeles, all mislabeled 'Molokan'.
1929
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| Daily crossword puzzle "Largest Deer", Santa Cruz Evening News, 31 March 1933, page 7 |
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| Answer next day. |
The word also appeared in educational newsprint 'fillers', to fill a small gap in text.
In most of North America (Canada, USA, Mexico), a new generation of readers was exposed to this 'strange' new word mistakenly and confusingly describing all kinds of 'Doukhobors' as one group with one 'king'.
1929
1931
- Doukhobors banned from voting and moving to Mexico
- Peter V. Verigin's tomb dynamited
- nude 'Doukhobors' punished with itching powder
- Doukhobors bombed school
- 118 Doukhobor nudists arrested
- Doukhobor prison camp proposed
- confused Washington DC reporter summarized: "... independent, community and Sons of Freedom Doukhobors. Basic beliefs are the same."
- 59 nudes in SK charged with 'vagrancy'
- more than 550 arrested
- Peter P. Verigin, Jr. imprisoned 18 months in SK for 'perjury'
- Peter P. Verigin, Jr. resigns as leader
- 2 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors released from prison want back in to join husbands
- elderly Doukhobor couple drowns after driving car into Kootenay Lake
- about 1000 'Doukhobors' arrested near Nelson BC
- Peter P. Verigin Jr. to be deported to Russia
- attorney Peter G. Makaroff rushes to Halifax to stop deportation
- John J. Verigin, 10 years old, may be next Doukhobor king
- Doukhobor leader freed from jail and rearrested for debt
- 1 million acres (1,563 mi2) reserved for Doukhobors in Mexico
- spiritual head of Doukhobor sect goes home to SK
- Verigin trip home postponed due to frostbite while in prison
- Mexican government wants Doukhobor settlers
- Crossword puzzle (above)
Sometimes reporters confused the Canadian and American groups. Compare the news reports about 'Doukhobors' in Canada (above) to simultaneous news (below) of the mixed Spiritual Christians tribes from Russia in Los Angeles, all mislabeled 'Molokan'.
1929
- Kniga solnste, dukh i zhizn' (Book of the Sun, Spirit and Life) published. A preface was contributed by Dr. Young falsely claiming they were "Molokane" to hide their mystical ecstatic spiritual zealotry which has no origin in Molokan history.
- A spiritual zealot places the new book on the altar tables of several congregations in Los Angeles as a 3rd Testament to the Russian Bible.
- Most of the Spiritual Christian congregations from Russia in Southern California are coerced into using this new book, changing their rites, holidays, songs, prayers to those printed in the Dukh i zhizn', thus forming a new family of faiths best called Dukh-i-zhizniki.
- The distant Prygun colonies in Baja California, Mexico, did not place this book on their altar table, rather on a shelf, in case any visitor requested it.
- Leader of Spiritual Christians From Russia in Los Angeles, I.G. Samarin, who coordinated settlement in Mexico, now seeks land in U.S.A. for resettlement.
- "Assimilation Problems of Russian Molokans in Los Angeles", doctoral dissertation by P. V. Young. Young could not find any history about Pryguny, so she falsely changed the group identity to Molokan.
- Profs. Young bring sociologists and lawyers together in conference to deal with problems of Russian sectarian immigrants and youth.
- Mother of 3 Electrocuted. Family history
- Coach for spring-board diving champions Mickey and Johnny, the Galitzen brothers, changed their German-sounding last names to "Riley". Their new names are often on the sports pages.
- Tourist invited to visit Spiritual Christian Prygun colonies near Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
- Lover's suicide, Anna Prohoff, 18, and Pete Makshanoff, 21, drank insecticide.
- Prygun elder who helped lead the migration to Los Angeles and wrote chapter in Dukh i Zhizn', P. M. Shubin, dies.
- Uren sues Pivovaroff for $25,000 in wrongful shooting of his son.
- New book — Pilgrims of Russian Town: The Community of Spiritual Christian Jumpers in America, by Dr. Pauline Young — documents zealous religion and delinquent youth. Young is interviewed in news and gives lectures about these immigrants.
- Sociology department of the University of Southern California expands social work into ethnic groups, including Spiritual Christians from Russia, engaging with students and faculty from other universities.
- Mickey (Galitzen) Riley wins gold medal at Summer Olympics (plaque displayed at Colosseum), and "King Mick" marries woman gold metalist.
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